Establish strategic relationships with key stakeholders. Lead business strategy and planning meetings. Ensure that business needs are addressed by the technical solutions. Act as an advocate for the business needs and required results. Provide strategic consulting on options, risks, CBA/ROI analysis and impacts.

Created Business Requirement, Use case, process mapping and web site wireframes for mobile matter registration application and related project-critical documentation

Performed functional application development review, functional testing, and data analysis

Published and distributed document change requests to Gate3 Development Team

MORGAN GROUP, Stanwood, MI JUL 2016 – NOV 2016

Financial Business Analyst Contract

Performed financial research and analysis of real estate property acquisition, development, construction, and sales data.

Assisted in the development of forecasting models and drafted acquisition assumption schedules.

Prepared monthly operating reports for Senior Management

Gathered industry intelligence and market research.

LANDS’ END, Dodgeville, WI APR 2016 – JUN 2016

Agile Business Analyst Contract

Analyzed and drafted Business Process Modeling and Notation (BPMN) documents of Finance, Accounting, and Procurement diagrams with narratives in advance of decommissioning the legacy ERP system to Oracle ERP Ver 12.2.5.

Agile ‘Co-Lead’ of the cross-functional Finance/Accounting and PMO Teams in a presentation of preliminary as-Is documentation prior to transferring to the in-house BA staff.

Drafted 35 process narratives/stories to accompany process diagrams required by the implementation partners for technical solution build out of the GEAC and related legacy system retirements.

GETINGE GROUP, Addison, IL JUN 2015 – MAR 2016

Business Analyst Contract

Co-Functional Lead of the Financial implementation team and Functional Lead of legacy master data extraction – including serialization, data mapping, testing and reconciliation.

Tasks included data modeling, data extraction, and gathering/processing documentation and managed change controls (via Solution Manager) within the consolidation and retirement of three ERPs into one SAP instance.

Conducted client-facing sessions of Finance and Supply Chain groups for build out of the ERP Solution Manager library

Drafted documentation, verified Quality Assurance and moved multiple Sales, Operations, and Quality SQL reporting into the SSRS production environment.

Prepared comprehensive Use Case documentation illustrating business requirement diagrams to provide the current state functional business landscape. Process documentation was provided to the offshore development team illustrating functionality how the proposed ERP global template solution would fit in the legacy three-ERP world

Researched, conducted interviews and documented over 430 work processes identifying an eleven-team development cycle for the client’s largest customer in advance of an ERP system implementation.

Led the Supply Chain and Marketing development sessions with Team Leads to capture steps within the client’s specialty and print merchandise development campaign across four business units within their product development life cycle into a Use Case diagram document.

NTT DATA, Boston, MA / Plano, TX / Chicago, IL OCT 2014 – FEB 2015

Business Analyst – Organizational Change Management Contract

Conducted User and developer workshops to draft SOP documentation and mapping for a SAP rollout.

Translated and retooled ERP Financial and Supply Chain process components into written business and functional requirements – including Use Case narratives and diagrams - accepted by the technical development and management teams.

Chaired process review and gap analysis sessions with the Global Shared Services group based in India.

Published OCM User training documentation and Business Process Procedure (BPP) documentation and narratives describing their relationship to existing BAU processes.

Facilitated JAD / requirements gathering sessions as the basis to drive the data modeling and writing of technical requirements for the required applications.

BEL BRANDS USA, Elk Grove Village, IL JAN 2010 – AUG 2010

System Support Analyst Contract

Led the functional Financial transition activities in the retirement of Bel’s legacy Oracle-based ERP system and assisted in the conversion to SAP’s Finance, Supply Chain, and Production Planning modules.

Lead Functional analyst of the Master Data Management effort for the Financial and Production Planning modules including legacy data mapping and conversion. Assisted in the pre-production extract audit of Supply Chain Materials Management Vendor and Sales Customer master data.

Negotiated vendor pricing and SLA development for domestic supplier purchases. Created predictive modeling KPI analysis. Developed and implemented the inventory forecasting process.

Performed duties as domestic US specialty-stock Buyer for the Thomas Lighting business unit.

WMH TOOL GROUP, Elgin, IL MAR 2008 – MAR 2009

Business Applications Analyst Contract

Provided guidance and techno-functional leadership of BAU system activity along with new and enhancement projects within the organization’s ERP system for Finance and Materials Management module domains. (SAP FI/CO, MM, BW, APO modules)

Led all system process and design activities, performed system configuration, QA testing and validation for all requirements.

Techno-functional lead of the Sabrix Sales Tax application software installation as well as assuming the role of technical lead of the EDI 210 freight payment process.

Liaison to offshore Business Warehouse / Business Intelligence support staff.

PREGIS CORPORATION, Deerfield, IL FEB 2007 – JAN 2008

Business Analyst – SAP Systems Contract

Developed system optimization strategies by performing utilization and benefit analysis of improvements through requirements gathering, gap analysis, JAD sessions and feasibility studies.